Chicago : a literary history /

"In the opening sentences of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900), eponymous protagonist Caroline Meeber boards the afternoon train from Columbia City, Wisconsin, to Chicago. She is heading for a city whose fame has fascinated her "since infancy." Sixty years before Carrie...

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Other Authors: Køhlert, Frederik Byrn (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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520 |a "In the opening sentences of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900), eponymous protagonist Caroline Meeber boards the afternoon train from Columbia City, Wisconsin, to Chicago. She is heading for a city whose fame has fascinated her "since infancy." Sixty years before Carrie's journey, set in 1889, Chicago was a frontier outpost at the head of a portage route linking the Great Lakes to the Mississippi basin. It was home to a handful of Native Americans, French hommes des bois, frontier traders, and members of the Fort Dearborn garrison. Dreiser's late-1880s Chicago, on the contrary, is aweinspiring, the more so as it is not fully formed. Having recovered from the 1871 fire, it is, in Dreiser's conservative estimate, "a city of over 500,000, with the ambition ... of a metropolis of a million." As such, it acts upon its surroundings as "a giant magnet." Ominously, the metropolis's "roar of life, ... [and] vast array of human hives" breathe "falsehoods" into "the unguarded ear" of Midwesterners like Carrie herself. Dreiser's heroine is not the first literary migrant from the prairie hinterland to face what Hamlin Garland called the "appalling and unimaginable presence of Chicago." Dennis Fleet, Jr., in Edward Payson Roe's Barriers Burned Away (1872), one of the first Chicago novels, left his parents' prairie farm for the metropolis a few years before the great fire"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
505 0 |a Introduction: The literary history of Chicago / Frederik Byrn Køhlert -- Part I: The rise of Chicago and the literary west. From prairie to metropolis : Chicago as the American "shock city" / Cbristophe Den Tandt ; Birth, fire, and rebirth : Edward Payson Roe's Barriers burned away and the invention of Chicago literature / Charles Byler ; ''This broad, free inland America of ours" : Hamlin Garland, Chicago, and the literary west / Christine Holbo ; White city : the World's Columbian Exposition in literature / Rebecca S. Graff ; New realities, new realisms : Chicago literature against the genteel tradition / Robert Birdwell -- Part II: Business unusual : a new urban American literature. Among the skyscrapers : Henry B. Fuller's Chicago novels / Joseph A. Dimuro ; The price of success : Robert Herrick's The memoirs of an American citizen and the American business novel / Jose Fernandez ; "A story of Chicago" : the future of place in Frank Norris's The pit‭ ‬/ Jason Puskar ; Amid forces : Theodore Dreiser's Chicago / T. Austin Graham ; Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, and George Ade : a new urban vernacular / John Wharton Lowe -- Part III: Radicalism, modernism, and the Chicago renaissance. Progressive Chicago : Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and social reform literature / Rachel Elin Nolan ; From the prairie to the city : Willa Cather's "City of feeling"/ Mark A. Robison ; Poetry, the Little review, and Chicago modernism / Bartholomew Brinkman ; A spirit of two ages : the romantic modernism of Carl Sandburg's Chicago poems / John Marsh ; Building a movement : Mary Reynolds Aldis and little theatre in Chicago / Megan E. Geigner ; Father to son : Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago renaissance / Timothy B. Spears -- 
505 8 |a Part IV. A city of neighborhoods : the Great Depression, sociology, and the black Chicago renaissance. Chicago ecology and James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan / Moacir P. de SaÌ? Pereira ; Chicago gets the blues : migration, depression, and the black renaissance / Richard A. Courage ; Black Chicago : Richard Wright's South Side / William R. Nash ; Life in Bronzeville : humanism and community in the work of Gwendolyn Brooks / Courtney Pierre Joseph ; Hustlers, junkies, and prostitutes : Nelson Algren's white slums / Ian Peddie ; From emptyland to uncanny city : Saul Bellow's Jewish Chicago / Alan Bilton -- Part V. Traditions and futures : contemporary Chicago literatures. Division Street America : the nine Chicago literary lives of Studs Terkel / Tony Macaluso ; Sexual and other perversities : David Mamet and contemporary Chicago theater / Ira Nadel ; Chicago crime, blue collar and white : Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski novels / Charlotte Beyer ; Drawing Chicago : Chris Ware's graphic city / Frederik Byrn Køhlert ; Across neighborhood and national boundaries : Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Mexican Chicago / Olga L. Herrera ; Stuart Dybek and the new Chicago's literature of neighborhood / Carlo Rotella ; Chicago now : Aleksandar Hemon, Dmitry Samarov, Erika L. SaÌ?nchez, and the contemporary city of immigrants / Sonia Weiner ; Afterword: What will become of us? The future of Chicago literatures / Bill Savage. 
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